Who is the heir to Thomas Pynchon?

[tony antoniadis]

Quick question: what do people on this list think of George Saunders' 
frequent title as "the heir to Pynchon" ? Doesn't sound right. Perhpas only 
insofar as they're both satirists? I believe that Pynchon, in a very generic 
way, is a satirist, although he's doing about 7 other things with his text 
while Saunders, I don't know... I've always thought of saunders as perhaps a 
juiced up Barry Hannah, at least that was evident with Civilwarland... I'm 
just not satisfied with these blurbs that peg Saunders as the heir to TRP, 
or Vonnegut, perhaps, who in my opinion was always dealing with Big Ideas 
but used a very, how do I say it, boring language to convey them... 
 Is Saunders the heir to Pynchon? If not, then who is?
 Tony
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